Our flagship feature for this release has been themes. Themes?!, you
say? Yes, proper, versionable, releasable, first-class themes. We’re pretty
stoked about it and we hope you like building and using them. For now, it
only supports layouts, includes, and sass, but we have plans to include
static assets like images and CSS/JS in a future release. Read more about
it in the docs. Our site template generated by jekyll new
now dogfoods this feature, using the minima theme.

Some other notable changes:

Symlinks are allowed as long as they target a file in the site source

Explicit support for Ruby 2.0.x was dropped

Added an :after_init Hook

Added a where_exp filter to provide more powerful filtering

Added a link liquid tag which can be used to generate URL’s for any
post or document based on its path relative to the site source

Every release is made possible by the countless hours of hard work that our
fellow community members put into sending patches, filing thoughtful
patches, and so on. These release took the work of over 80 people:

Aaron Sky

Adam Hollett

ajhit406

Aki

Alex Hanselka

Alex Hoyau

Alex Ivkin

Alex Kitchens

Alex Plescan

Alex Wood

Anatoliy Yastreb

Andrew Artajos

Andrew Munsell

AndrewCz

Ankush Menat

Anthony Smith

Ben Balter

Brian Jones

Brint O’Hearn

Chayoung You

Chris Wells

chrisfinazzo

Clark Winkelmann

Dan Allen

David Von Lehman

David Zhang

Derek Gottlieb

Enes Gönültaş

EricH

Erick Sasse

Eugênio Cabral

Florian Thomas

Frank Taillandier

Henry Goodman

Henry Wright

Hugo Duksis

Hugo Giraudel

Jack Reed

Jamie Bilinski

Jeff Kolesky

Jens Willmer

Jordon Bedwell

Josh Waller

Joshua Barnett

Keegan Mullaney

Kevin Miller

Krzysztof Jurewicz

Loren Rogers

Marcos Brito

Marcus Stollsteimer

Matt Rogers

Michaël Guitton

Mike Linksvayer

Mike Neumegen

Nathan Hazout

Nick

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nscyclone

Parker Moore

Pat Hawks

Pierre Fenoll

Praveen Kumar

Rares Vernica

Saleem Rashid

Sam Dutton

Shengbin Meng

Shinn Kondo

Shinnosuke Kondo

skim

Sondre Nilsen

Spencer A. Bywater

Stephen Checkoway

Suriyaa Kudo

surrim

TheLucasMoore

Thomas Wood

Tim Wisniewski

Tom Fejfar

Tony Garnock-Jones

Vincent Wochnik

XhmikosR

Yanis Vieilly

Yordis Prieto

Zack Spencer

We are so grateful to all of you for helping to put together a terrific
release. Thank you!